Do You Have Questions about
Mouth and Throat Cancers?
If you have been
diagnosed with cancer of the mouth and throat, you are most likely frightened
and worried. And, you probably have pressing questions about the cancer you have
and the course of treatment you'll need.
Authors William Lydiatt,
M.D., and Perry Johnson, M.D., have worked with thousands of mouth and throat
cancer patients. They understand the emotional turmoil patients and their
families go through after a cancer diagnosis, and they know how being informed
can relieve some of that stress. They offer answers to
many questions in Cancers of the Mouth and Throat.
Among topics
they cover:
- How early detection leads to high cure rates
- Symptoms that could mean cancer
- The emotional side of cancer: the rollercoaster
- How doctors make a diagnosis
- Staging the cancer and why it is so important
- Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy...how they kill cancer
cells
- Reconstructive surgery
- Experimental treatments through clinical trials
Appendix,
Glossary, Index, and Resource section
Book also features poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate of the
United States, Ted Kooser.
Ted Kooser, one of Nebraska's most highly
regarded poets and the country's newest Poet Laureate of the United States
(2004-2005) contributed four of his poems to Cancers of the Mouth and Throat.
The poet, Kooser has written ten collections of poetry, most recently winning
the Pulitzer Prize for Delights & Shadows (2004).
Revised 2005
